My cousin has a 50's John Deere 440 dozer that has been sitting for 20 years with a broken final drive and a tarp over it. The machine is pretty rusted up. I would like to get it going again but it seems like a running machine is around $3000-4000 on ebay. I'm pretty sure it's a gasoline engine. What should I offer for it and how much do you guys think it would cost to get running again? Should I just suck it up and buy an already running unit?
It looks like this but rustier:
http://www.tractorshed.com/gallery/tphotos/a4683.jpg
It looks like this but rustier:
http://www.tractorshed.com/gallery/tphotos/a4683.jpg